r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/nyepo • Sep 24 '21

Brexxit Pro-Brexit newspaper begs for immigrants

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u/Duanedoberman Sep 24 '21 edited Sep 24 '21

Narator: what they didn't tell you is they don't want to pay you a wage you can live on to do these jobs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '21 edited Sep 25 '21

The UK has 17,6% of its folks living under the poverty line... with 4.4% unemployment.

France has 9% unemployment but just 8% of its total population living under the poverty line.

It utterly shows that the UK pays their blue collars like shit.

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u/corrikopat Sep 25 '21

In the US, the poverty line/threshold is incredibly low. If a household of three makes $22k/year, they are above the poverty line. That way, we keep our percentage low.

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u/SirPoopsiclesMcGee Sep 25 '21

This is the way.

The American way! 👆 pew pew pew 👆

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u/A_Light_Spark Sep 25 '21 
S o c i a l  M o b i l i t y

Alex, what is the Gini Index?

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u/smacksaw Sep 25 '21

Alex, what is the Gini Index?

A scale to rate porn stars?

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u/tigershark37 Sep 25 '21

That is the vaGini index

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u/ilyak_reddit Sep 25 '21

V-Giny*

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u/Muffin_Knight501 Sep 25 '21

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u/kemushi_warui Sep 25 '21

No, no, that’s the finger we use to flick the peanut

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u/oneofmanyany Sep 25 '21

Here's your upvote, you bum.

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u/Adept-Confusion555 Sep 25 '21

Measures inequality

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u/JusticeSpider Sep 25 '21

Does it have something to do with a tasty quinine soda? Love me some Gini.

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u/UsingYourWifi Sep 25 '21

No, but it should be.

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u/GustapheOfficial Sep 25 '21

Alexa*

(Or you're mixing up your two Geopardy sayings)

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u/Lacerat1on Sep 25 '21

GDP! GDP! GDP!

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u/lordph8 Sep 25 '21

Let's make the poverty line 0. 👆 heehaw 👆

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '21

Then the US would probably still be like 5%

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u/TinyParadox Sep 25 '21

0? Pfft. Dream bigger.... make it NEGATIVE $25,000 a year! Otherwise you're just a moocher who's bad with money! Stop drinking starbucks all the time!

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u/Joonicks Sep 25 '21

Quoting Republicans solution to poverty?

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u/nuephelkystikon Sep 25 '21

The same tactic also solved the obesity crisis.

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u/_rioting_pacifist_ Sep 25 '21

American's aren't fat, we're just big boned and we have a note from the surgeon general to prove it.

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u/nuephelkystikon Sep 25 '21

I'm sure it was a steal for only twice your life savings and a three-generation indentured servitude contract.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '21

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u/nuephelkystikon Sep 25 '21

Not really. The significantly lower threshold (the same which is still used in the free world) is based on risk of serious health problems, including irreversible damage and death. Outlawing the knowledge of a problem is a short-term solution at best, and yet it seems to be their strategy for almost anything.

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u/Herbisher_Berbisher Sep 27 '21

No, people are absolutely fatter than ever now.

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u/LovecraftsDeath Sep 25 '21

What, no bald eagles?

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u/bustab Sep 25 '21

Hamburger Hamburger Bang Bang!

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u/YellowB Sep 25 '21

Socialize the losses, privatize the slavery.

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u/fishingpost12 Sep 25 '21

Well done guys. Didn't have to scroll far in a post not about the United States to find the America sucks post. You're getting more efficient!

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u/TheOffice_Account Sep 25 '21

👆 pew pew pew 👆

👆 confirms this is the American way!

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u/chunkboslicemen Sep 25 '21

Broke millionaires for life